A one word tweet from Charles Michel, the European Council president, at 05.31 on the morning of July 21 told the world that EU leaders had finally struck a deal on a landmark coronavirus recovery package: Deal!, wrote Mr Michel. After days of often...
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Emerging Europe, like much of the world, has big plans for 5G mobile technology and the benefits it will bring, which go far beyond faster data transfer speeds and...
The people of Bucharest, Romania’s capital, appear to have decided that coronavirus no longer exists, or at the very least is no longer a threat. Despite face masks...
A referendum in October 2018 that, if successful, would have redefined the understanding of the word ‘family’ in the Romanian constitution as “a man and a woman” was...
The lobbying industry is alive and well in emerging Europe despite numerous regulatory issues, concentrated around industries subject to heavy scrutiny (and high...
Victory at ECHR for anti-corruption hero places Romania’s constitutional court in unwanted spotlight
Just days after being named as Emerging Europe’s Public Figure of the Year, Romanian Laura Codruţa Kövesi has won a landmark victory at the European Court of Human...
Whereas the UK’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, has been able to use his own illness and the birth of his sixth or seventh child (nobody appears to know the exact...
Romania has become the first country in Europe to formally announce that schools and kindergartens, as well as universities, will remain closed until the beginning of...
Over the past week the clamour for a total shutdown of all public life has become so deafening across much of Europe that governments which had been erstwhile immune to...
In extraordinary circumstances, Romania’s parliament has voted to approve the appointment of a new government, led by the Liberal party’s (PNL) Ludovic Orban...
Romania’s government has been ousted in a vote of no confidence, just three months and one day after taking office. The vote paves the way for an early parliamentary...
Tech companies in Romania are increasingly concerned that the generous tax breaks they have enjoyed for a number of years are about to be withdrawn by the...
